Test 12 · ★ · Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals th…

So Esben got a stick and a bag, what else did he need?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Esben · What happens: get, need · To what, where: stick

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1657 «Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals the dove, then the king asks for a golden-bristled boar» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
2	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bag	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bag	det
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 need	obj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 what	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 need	aux
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
14	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stick	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Esben	a stick and a bag					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Stimulus
2	need	past · do-support	Esben	a stick and a bag					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a horse, a bag and some food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bag	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 food	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nothing, he just used his stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 used	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 used	advmod
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stick	nmod:poss
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	nothing					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient

Option 4

nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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